Nekonomicon - SGI hardware in movies

zr0hero
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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 9:44 a.m...

Some cool screenshots I took while watching Congo today. Didn't notice these a few years back :wink:

Notice the IndyCam

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Hybrid/Laptop/Fake ?

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Doom running on Irix in '95 !

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Geoman
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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 12:07 p.m...

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Didn't notice these a few years back

--me, too. nice screenshots, indeed. that sgi-notebook looks different than that one in "twister".

zahal
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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 2:04 p.m...

Seems like a fake laptop. The screen is clearly a Presenter 1280. I bet there's an Indy inside that yellow crate.

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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 2:10 p.m...

There's a description of the "laptops" used in Twister here:

http://www.bftr.com/Pages/projects/twister.html

Probably much the same for Congo.

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In the story, the two rival chase teams --one corporate sponsored, one low-tech university funded-- both have sets of computer equipment that was to match their incomes. SGI product placement dictated that ALL of the computers in the film had to be SGIs, so we had the task of making not only two distinctly different sets of graphics for nearly every scene, but different-looking EQUIPMENT between the two teams. This was nowhere more evident than with the SGI "laptops," which of course didn't exist. With the tireless dedication and help of Dan Evanicky at SGI, we were able to design and build two different fake laptop shells around the SGI Corona LCD flatscreen displays, with seven functional and seven dummy cases for each design, we had a handful to take care of; each "laptop" had a powerful custom backlight run off a separate 12-volt DC power supply and multiple cables which ran back off the set (often through mud and puddles) to the Indy CPUs which fed them. Each shell was custom-milled for us by IDE, a prototype manufacturer in the Silicon Valley.

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zr0hero
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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 2:14 p.m...

I have a few more pics I might post when I get home.

Its great to see how SGIs were viewed in the 90s: the ultimate workstations. How the times change...

Geoman
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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 2:17 p.m...

oh i see, the display is presenter-based - so it should be the same "fake-laptop" as in the twister movie. but looks nice and convincing, as in twister one could only see the upper part of the laptop.

Frapazoid
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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 2:31 p.m...

Err... Did SGI make laptops? I've never heard of this.

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zahal
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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 2:42 p.m...

zr0hero wrote:

I have a few more pics I might post when I get home.

Its great to see how SGIs were viewed in the 90s: the ultimate workstations. How the times change...

Right, nowadays hollywood has gone intel...MI:3 is full of "winux" lapcraps.

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zr0hero
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Wrote the following at June 8, 2006, 3:38 p.m...

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but looks nice and convincing

Sure does. She uses it multiple times during the movie..I'll have to get a few more shots of it up.

87Porsche
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Wrote the following at June 9, 2006, 5:24 a.m...

Can't forget the big irons behind the glass.

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Geoman
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Wrote the following at June 9, 2006, 6:18 a.m...

I definetively need this movie on dvd - didn't remember that it was such massively sgi-equipped.

87Porsche
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Wrote the following at June 9, 2006, 7:11 a.m...

Don't forget 'The Peacemaker'. Lots of workstations in that one too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119874/

zr0hero
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Wrote the following at June 9, 2006, 9:33 a.m...

A few more..

Another Laptop shot (plus some GPS device)

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Laptop again

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LCD shot

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And a cool shot of that Laser Perimeter Fence

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Spidy
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Wrote the following at June 10, 2006, 9:31 p.m...

Man it's hard to find this movie at my local video stores on DVD.

All I can find is the tape version, too bad my vcr crapped itself last year.

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zr0hero
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Wrote the following at June 12, 2006, 12:32 p.m...

I am pretty sure I picked up my copy from Best Buy / Walmart for 7 bucks. You cant go wrong

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